Listen to music by the American composer Moondog, aka Louis Hardin, or "the Viking of 6th Avenue," who was also a musician, a poet and the inventor of several musical instruments (and was blind.) He adopted his nom de plume in honor of a dog "who used to howl at the moon more than any dog I knew of." Moondog performed daily in a cape and Viking helmet on the corner of 52nd Street and 6th Avenue in New York City, up until 1974, when he left for Germany. He died on September 8, 1999 at the age of 83 in Munster, Germany.
Also, hear Moondog's music as arranged by sax-men Sylvain Rifflet & Jon Irabagon, as well as reinterpretations of Moondog's music by the trio called Hobocombo for this New Sounds program. And more.
PROGRAM #3634 Music of Moondog (First aired on 9/08/2014)
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ARTIST(S) |
RECORDING |
CUT(S) |
SOURCE |
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Moondog |
Moondog 1 & 2
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Bells are Ringing, [1:16] |
CBS/Sony 44994 |
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Moondog |
Moondog 1 & 2
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Lament I, "Bird's Lament" [1:43] |
CBS/Sony 44994 |
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Moondog |
elpmas |
Westward Ho! [6:00] |
Kopf - #KD 123314 |
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Hobocombo |
Moondog Mask |
Desert Boogaloo [5:42] |
Trovarobato Parade / Lineria |
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Sylvain Rifflet & Jon Irabagon |
Perpetual Motion a Celebration of Moondog |
Moondog: Bird's Lament [3:06] |
Jazz Village |
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Moondog |
Sax Pax for a Sax |
New Amsterdam [6:25] |
Atlantic 83069 |
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Hobocombo |
Now that it’s the opposite, it’s twice upon a time |
Moondog: Bird's Lament [3:41] |
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Moondog & Bklyn Phil |
New Music America, Live at Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1989 |
Tale of Two Cities, Good for Goodie [6:21] |
These performances not commercially available. |
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Kronos Quartet |
Early Music |
Moondog: Syncrony No. 2 [2:41] |
Nonesuch 79457 |
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Moondog |
More Moondog |
All is Loneliness [:58] |
Fantasy 17812 / 4 Men with Beards 176 |
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Big Brother & the Holding Company, feat. Janis Joplin |
Big Brother & the Holding Company |
All Is Loneliness [2:31] |
Columbia / Sony Music 9801 |
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Antony & the Johnsons |
Soundcloud, recorded live in 2005 |
All is Loneliness, excerpt [:30] |